Entre outros, os oradores principais serão:

Karen Glass (Canada)

Finding a Better Way: A Basic Income Pilot Project for Ontario

Karen Glass is the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Poverty Reduction Strategy with over 20 years of experience working in provincial government. She is a strategic, results oriented leader with significant accomplishments in program delivery, policy development and execution, managing change and achieving results. Prior to this role, Karen was in Cabinet Office where she held two senior executive positions.

Guy Standing (UK)

The Charter of the Forest: 800th Anniversary of Basic Income in the Commons

Lena Stark (Sweden, Basic Income Party)

Basic Income, let's vote it in!

Lena Stark, Vice-Chair of Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE), member has founded a new political party, Basinkomstpartiet, to promote basic income in Sweden. Basinkomstpartiet plans to develop a specific model of basic income for the country, and to run candidates for election in Sweden’s general election in September 2018.

At present, however, the party is still under development–as is the exact model of basic income that it will promote. To become an official political party, Basinkomstpartiet needs 1500 signatures.

Cosima Kern (Germany, Bündnis Grundeinkommen)

The Basic Income Party in Germany at the Bundestag election

As Vice-Chair of Germany’s basic income party “Bündnis Grundeinkommen”, founded in 2016, Cosima Kern wants to foster debates about basic income across society and the political spectrum in Germany. She is currently finishing her studies in Philosophy & Economics at the University of Bayreuth and strives to pursue an academic career in Public Policy. Bündnis Grundeinkommen will take part in this year’s general election on 24th September.

Review of the Swiss UBI referendum and what to learn from it; Basic income in the USA, China, Taiwan, Japan, experiences

Enno Schmidt was born in Osnabrück, West Germany, in 1958. He studied art (painting) at the Academy of fine Arts in Frankfurt/M, Germany, exhibited at home and abroad, winner of Frankfurt Art Award 1994.Schmidt founded the „Enterprise Economy and Art – Expanded, Ltd.“ in 1990 together with other artists and entrepreneurs. He was management director of this company.

Ronnie Cowan (Scotland, MP)

A Scottish perspective for introducing a Basic Income

Ronnie is the Member of Parliament for Inverclyde having retained the seat at the 2017 General Election.Ronnie is originally from Greenock and after leaving school he got a job as a trainee computer operator at Playtex in Port Glasgow, and went on to build a career in IT, latterly running his own company which focussed on finding IT solutions to business problems.Political Interests: Drugs policy reform, employment, gambling related harm, renewables and universal basic income.

Ping Xu (Taiwan UBI)

Preparatory stage of a pilot program in Taiwan

Ping Xu is the face of the UBI movement in Taiwan. Previously, Ping was a career concert pianist in the United States. During the darkest moment of her life, forced to take on a job to receive steady pay check, she cut her finger, leaving her permanently unable to continue her work as a pianist. From this experience, Ping quickly realized how precarious working conditions are for the average person and the necessity for an unconditional basic income for all, to ensure no one is left behind like she once was. After 17 years, she returned to Taiwan to push for a true Universal Basic Income.

Masahiko Yamada (Japan)

Implementation of Basic Income in Japan

Lawyer and Japanese politician belonged to the Democratic Party of Japan. Former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).Former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Yukio-Hatoyama and Naoto-Kan cabinet (2009-2010).Born in Fukue, Nagasaki, in 1942 Roman Catholic, and graduate of Waseda University, Elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1993 after 3 times unsuccessfulBefore running for office, he worked as a rancher.

Francisco Louçã (Portugal)

Is the universal basic income feasible and an adequate social strategy for fairness?

Francisco Louçã (b. 1956, Lisbon), Full Professor of Economics, ISEG, Lisbon University. He was a member of Parliament for five mandates (1999-2013) and is currently a member of the State Council. Published recently “Shadows, Financial Disorder in the Era of Global Capital”, with Michael Ash, and “As Classes Populares”, with Ligia Ferro and João Teixeira Lopes.